Lubricator for engine-valves.



D. MOREHOUSE.

LUBRICATOR FOR ENGINE VALVES. APPLIOATION FILED 00:.13, 1905.

PATENTE'D JUNE 12, 190s.

UNITED STATES DAVID MOREHOUSE, OF ST. ELMO, ILLINOIS.

LUBRICATOR FOR ENGINE-VALVES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

:atented June 12, 1906.

Application filed October 13, 1905. Serial No. 282,656.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, DAVID MOREHOUSE, a citizen of the United States,residing at St. Elmo, in the county of Fayette and State of Illinois,have invented new and useful Improvements in Lubricators for Engine-Valves, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is a lubricating device for the slide-valves of steam orother engines, and has for its object to provide improved and simplemeans for lubricating the valve and cylinder, the lubrication beingautomatic with the movement of the valve.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of the valve-seatprovided with the invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical sectionalview of the steam chest and cylinder.

In the drawings, 6 indicates the cylinder, 7 the steam-chest, and 8 anordinary slidevalve therein. The valve-plate has the usual inlet-ports 9and exhaust-port 10. Extending along beside each inlet-port is anoilgroove 11. These grooves are located outside the portsthat is,between the ports and the ends of the valve-seat. They are preferablysomewhat longer than the ports, so as to extend beyond the ends thereofand lubricate the edges of the valve. Each of these grooves communicatesby means of a passage 12 with a branch 13 of an oil-supply pipe 14,which extends through the wall of the valvechest. Oil is supplied throuh this pipe from any suitable source, prefera ly a force-feed lubricatoror pump. The grooves are located under or open directly against the faceor bearing-surface of the valve, and it is obvious that the oil suppliedto the groove will be taken up during the movement of the valve andapplied to the bearingsurfaces and across the entire Width of the valve.Furthermore, when the valve makes a stroke it will scrape or draw theoil over the edge of the port 7 and into the same, so that the steamflowing in said port carries with it the oil into the cylinder, therebylubricating the cylinder, and no oil is carried to the exhaustport untilafter it shall have been used in the cylinder. In those types ofbalanced valves in which the exhaust finds its way to the top of thevalve, such oil as may be carried out by the exhaust will serve tolubricate the top bearings of such valve.

. The invention is not confined to the exact embodiment shown, since asimple valve is used for the purpose of illustration, but is adapted foruse with any type of reciprocating valve by the production ofoil-grooves in w the valve-seat adjacent to the inlet-ports.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a lubricator for engine slide-valves, a

valve-seat having oil-outlets in its face adj acent to and on the outerside of or beyond the inlet-ports therein and so arranged that both willbe covered by the valve during the middle part of its stroke, andalternately covered and uncovered by the valve at the ends of itsstrokes, whereby oil delivered from the outlets will be carried into andthrough the ports into the cylinder as the inlet-ports are openedrespectively, and means independent of the pressure in the valve-chest,to supply oil to said outlets.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

DAVID MOREHOUSE.

Witnesses:

LA MONTE SAYLER, O. M. DURST.

